Japanese for Zero Level

[@kanamenaito]

Phrase list: suimasen I'm sorry. Excuse me. kore This kudasai Please give me suimasen, kore kudasai. Excuse me, please give me this. koreto, koreto, kore kudasai. Please give me this and this and this. arigatou Thank you. mizu Water suimasen, mizu kudasai. Excuse me, give me water. mizu kudasai. Give me water. suimasen, tea kudasai. Excuse me, give me tea. suimasen, beer kudasai. Excuse me, give me beer. biiru beer suimasen, biiru kudasai. Excuse me, give me beer. suimasen, koohii kudasai. Excuse me, give me coffee. coffee kudasai. Give me coffee. okaikei onegaishimasu Check please. onegaishimasu Please. okaikei check okaikei onegaishimasu Check please. daijoobudesu It's okay. toire dokodesuka? Where is bathroom? toire bathroom dokodesuka? Where? suimasen, toire dokodesuka? Excuse me, where is bathroom? nihonngo dekimasen I can't speak Japanese. ohayoo Good morning. konnichiwa Hello. konbanwa Good evening. sayounara Farewell jaane See ya. baibai Bye bye. watashiwa ... desu I'm ... onamaewa? What's your name? yoroshiku. Nice to meet you. yoroshiku onegaishimasu. Nice to meet you. (more polite) wakarimasen I don't understand. oishii It's tasty. oishiidesu It's tasty. (polite) oishiidesuka? Is it tasty? mazui Tastes bad.

[@ancer555]

I always thought it was pronounced すみません? is suimasen a different dialect or is it the correct pronunciation?

[@MrBaconFTWreal]

@@ancer555 すいません is just a bit more casual than すみません. They both mean the same thing.

[@ancer555]

@@MrBaconFTWreal thx man

[@RindraniainaSylvieRAHARISOLONJ]

'If you are in very formal situation and you need to speak very formally... then don't speak Japanese.' Best advice ever. Thank you Kaname sensei.

[@Fafner888]

How do I speak polite Japanese? Kaname: you don't.

[@RT-qd8yl]

Realest advice ever, that's how you know he actually wants us to succeed

[@jennsuicune]

Now I'm lost...😅

[@ShayHezarkhani]

i was dying laughing at that part. even for people, like me, who've been in Japan for a decent while, you just don't bother. you know you are out of your depth (speaking for myself).

[@ed_halley]

I remember crisply saying 'sumimasen' in restaurants and getting ignored. Eventually switching to 'suimasen' helped. Appreciate your continued emphasis on street Japanese, not keigo.

[@DeHaos]

Hmm, you can say すみません or すまない。すいません is just harder to pronounce. すみません is the correct pronunciation, so on that count I suppose it would be considered more polite by a very small margin. But just like in English, people can be lazy with pronunciation, which is why you'll sometimes hear すいません. You also might run across すんません and すんまへん, but from what I've read these are more Kansai-isms than anything else. When in doubt, stick with the standard pronunciation, but in all cases the difference is in pronunciation only (the meaning stays the same).

[@stevezodiacXL5]

@@DeHaos Thank you for this! I studied Japanese a lot, evening classes here in the UK, and schools in Japan (but only short courses, not for a year or anything like that), and I've always said すみません - always! Seeing Kaname-sensei using すいません made me doubt everything I ever knew. ;-) But I would never try to be *especially* polite - I used to ask Japanese friends for rough language tips! So if I was using a more polite version, it was by accident.

[@WanJae42]

Try おおおおおおおおい😂

[@FENomadtrooper]

@@stevezodiacXL5 Funny, I'm the opposite. I always try to be very polite with strangers, even in English.

[@sdsddai]

​@@stevezodiacXL5"すいません" and "すみません" are 99% the same. It's like the difference between "I'm going to" and "I'm gonna." Native speakers will forget which one you used within a second. 😂

[@ibracadabra900]

This is the first Kaname video where I already knew all the words lol

[@TGYtco]

I was just thinking the same thing!!

[@Eyebuster2]

Same fr haha

[@rnengy]

Well made video, you the best! i prefer the “middle grade” Japanese videos since those are harder to come by, but I am sure others will love this

[@eightbyeight]

Good video. Even for someone who has been studying for a while, this is still a good reminder for what I should say and how. ありがとう ございます

[@wolterjulian2607]

Would really love this to become a series! Thank you for this video though❤

[@yesbutactuallynotatall]

Thank you for this! I think a video with phrases that tourists are likely to hear from Japanese people during likely interactions would be helpful. (Such as what would be said to us when entering a restaurant/shop/convenience store like "irasshaimase" or "Nan mei sama desu ka?"

[@Crashpunk]

Please make this a series! ありがとう!

[@tommysdirtandsoultommytheh1569]

I suppose the difference between sumimasen and suimasen might be similar to us here in the U.S. saying "scuse me" instead of excuse me?

[@qwmx]

Yep.

[@erikcurtis6288]

Arigatō sense! I will travel to Tokyo for work for three months. These simple phrases will be very helpful. I'd be interested in a future "phrase" series.

[@adrianovaroli]

"You use [suimasen] when you apologize for example you accidentally step on someone's foot, bump into someone, slap someone's *face*" This is brilliant.

[@gbean229]

I needed this but didn't know I did. Should be an official or semi-official japan travel resource.

[@sumire-tian.1979]

すごい！It was the best clarification I had just heard about the most necessary phrases in Japanese 😮

[@andyv2209]

Is love to see more of these, they're very informative to me, im just about at the point where i can read and understand the basic phrases but you adding some variations and extra info is super helpful.

[@ja5304]

This is an amazing format!! Hopefully there is a future series of conversation role play. Thank you so much!

[@DougalBayer]

For five cities and two weeks of fantastic dinners at izakaya, I’d check my notes and prompt my brother with the wallet every night to say “okaikei onegaisimas.” On our last night we met a western friend who took us out bar hopping in the ‘Triangle.’ I asked my friend what he, as fluent, long-time resident, says to ask for the bill. He looked at me strangely for a moment and asked “Say???” then silently crossed his wrists in front of himself. Without missing a beat, the bartender presented our slip. This time I took it.

[@shyshy1984]

crossed diagonally, or horizontally?

[@keihues]

@@shyshy1984 crossing your index fingers diagonally (like an x) is more common

[@TheHaloce123]

Please do more of these. Very useful❤

[@stevegreatbanks2466]

Thanks Kaname, this is really useful information . I travel to Japan annually to ski and its nice to have a little more of the language, please keep posting. Cheers, Steve. ,

[@no.7893]

Finally a Kaname video for my level of japanese

[@zikichoo]

Can you believe it? This guy's out here just teaching people for free.

[@ThoughtIWasDreaming]

This was so helpful, thank you! I would love to see more videos like this ❤

[@Globetrotter2024-g3t]

Arigato gozaimas Kanamesan. Very helpful

[@paulolopes2199]

please make more videos! :) these are great!

[@mondorsoda4626]

I'd like this to become a series. Looking forward to it ^^

[@JohnM...]

Yes ‘sumimasen’ isn’t hip anymore. For the first thing, you could ask for an English written menu, which I think is: すいません、英語メニューがありますか(?) Suimasen, Eigo menyu- ga arimasuka? Excuse me, do you have an English menu? Tip: (cold) drinking water is ‘おひや’ said as oHiYa (low high high tone).

[@wide.eyed.wanderer19]

This was so helpful!!

[@nasugbubatangas]

Kaname's smile add to my enjoyment of watching this video.

[@fataniheart]

very helpful thank you.

[@tamago00]

A series of videos about this would be awesome!

[@Kirithキリス]

In a formal situation, don't speak Japanese. This is comedy that is not actually comedy. This is extremely good advice. su*imasen is extremely helpful. I have heard this many times, but my mind and mouth have always produced the "m" that I have seen in books (and hiragana) without exception.

[@zoom154]

At the end of the video, you asked viewers if there were something they would like to see a video on. Could you please make a video on "chotto" (ちょっと)? I have seen that word used in different ways. I'm not quite sure on when or how it is used. Honto ni arigato.

[@levileme8062]

Once in Japan, I had such a full bladder that people understood my face, I didn't need to say what I needed. 😂

[@gigi3242]

Awesome video, thank you. Have a lovely week.

[@CC-cn9rv]

Very useful, thank you

[@n0jdu64]

ビデオは楽しいです！これからも私たちに日本語を教えてください. i wanted to say that in japanese writing it by my self, but i had no clue how to write it so instead wrote something a bit different, like: Video Japanese is fun! Please study Japanese. so i wont try it again xd.

[@CrimsonMey]

I got by with just anone, thank you, and daijoubu. Thankfully the tour guide got those translator thingies.

[@GG-tr2xe]

We have been using “sumimasen”. This is the first time I heard “suimasen”

[@juliangorski5760]

Not gonna watch the entire video but I'm sure its very useful for other people. Keep it up Kaname!

[@nokkonokko]

Phrasebook series would be great!

[@luckytai-lan2166]

Yes, please make it series.

[@Andrew-b9e-m5j]

What is the. difference between suimasen (すいません）and sumimasen (すみません)? This is the first time I've heard of suimasen (すいません）

[@Axus743]

there's no difference. japanese people are just too lazy to say the "m" 😂

[@pax.]

suimasen is informal

[@RT-qd8yl]

You're a real one, Kaname. ✊

[@ryoukaip]

thank you, this is really helpful

[@whycyber]

arigato. very useful.

[@ezfruitjuicecubes6306]

For any begginers who want to learn hiragana + katakana i wouldn't reccomend duo lingo for most things but it's supeisingly good at teaching charachters (but not kanji)

[@jl8417]

It's not as 'gamified' but I find the website Tofugu has a great page for learning hiragana and katakana It breaks them into sections so you learn 5 at a time with a little memnotic for memorisation (eg: a i u e o あ、い、う、え、お) and then you do a little quiz and move on to the next 5 and it builds up people get scared of there being two 'alphabets' but they cover the same sounds and some symbols even look similar (ka ki ku ke ko in hiragana then katakana か カ、き キ、く ク、け ケ、こ コ)

[@BigFellaThx]

I second this. Duolingo seems to get a little less useful the further you get into it, but at the beginning I felt like it was amazing at teaching you the characters of the two basic phonetic alphabets. I had both Hiragana and Katakana pretty much down pat in only like 3 days. For the Kanji, it's probably like just middle of the road but it's a hard thing to teach tbh especially when you're not born into it so I can't blame them for that

[@Dzaimon8562]

1:12 *Slaps someone's face* Suimasen!!1!1!

[@hilde6300]

I’m a beginner so this is helpful 👍 thank you from Belgium

[@rymlks]

Duolingo and textbooks keep telling me to say "dozo yoroshiku" instead of "yoroshiku onegaishimasu", but every time you talk about greetings, I never hear you say it. I also don't think I've heard it on any Japanese shows that I've seen. Everyone seems to say "yoroshiku onegaishimasu" - should I just stop saying "dozo yoroshiku"?

[@jl8417]

Dozo yoroshiku will still be understood (as for formality/naturalness, someone else will have to tell you that) in fact you can combine the two phrases into one big "Dozo yoroshiku onegaishimasu" but that Will be quite formal so just do dozo yoroshiku, yoroshiku or yoroshiku onegaishimasu

[@LeviathanSparrow]

Wasn't there a sign in Japanese in front of the nikuman saying, "Foreigners: Don't say 'kore', say the name of the thing you want," or something like that? LOL

[@NOSIDE232]

ありがとうございます!!!!

[@UniqueStatus27]

I’ve never been this early 🎉

[@insanitypepper1740]

Watashi wa Insanity Pepper desu Arigatou!

[@darknesswithin0]

Kaname-san, use this video as the wall post for your KZbin's homepage. New subs would like it...

[@DiRECs]

I thought from the title this would be N0 (God mode Japanese), but it's actually N6

[@amirfahd197]

last time i said to a japanese person 'nihongo wakarimasen' but this ones 'nihongo dekimasen' i guess they both the same?

[@headsyndicate]

almost same. "wakarimasen" = "can't understand (Japanese)", "dekimasen" = "can't use (Japanese)/ not good at (Japanese)". so, for example, when you wonder which train you should take, "densha (train) wakarimasen" would be understandable but "densha dekimasen" is weird.

[@karlkeating2803]

"Nihongo wakarimasen" means you don't understand Japanese, while "Nihongo dekimasen" means (literally) you can't "do" (that is, speak) Japanese. A person might well be able to understand more than he can speak. In fact, this commonly is the case. The analogue applies to many Japanese people. While many of them have studied English, they can't (or won't, out of fear of embarrassment) speak English. They may be able to understand what you say in English without being able (or inclined) to reply in English.

[@jennsuicune]

​@@karlkeating2803Thank you for the explanation 😊

[@maximejeanpierre922]

Thank you for the great content ! Any difference between sumimasen and suimasen?

[@jennsuicune]

Il l'a expliqué : suimasen est plus informel et sumimasen plus poli ...

[@lingbingzheng8127]

Can do lessons on college academic terms? Plus specifically for international students

[@granthoytink2174]

PLEASE MAKE A SECOND んだ VIDEO FOR PRACTICE お願いします🙇🙇🙇

[@kotarouriderblack6118]

arigatou

[@marcelowiek]

先生、 動画からありがとうごさいます。日本語は少しができますけど、もっと動画（like this）いいです!

[@TGYtco]

Perfect video for my level. 😂

[@ShayHezarkhani]

🤣😂🤣 11:53 i was dying laughing. oh man so true.

[@グレープレイスタッフ]

ty bro, i'm gonna need this if i'm going to change nationalitys

[@uAslan53]

How do i say that I only know some Japanese phrases?

[@tanmeng5382]

Kaname sensei, can I use Okaikei kudasai instead of Okaikei onegaishimas?

[@TLOWNSU]

OH GOD I've been pronouncing it as suMImasen this entire time. I'm also taking the N5 in December. I'm so screwed 😂😭

[@icelaenl]

Both are correct - suimasen is more common in Tokyo as a regional thing, and in everyday speech when people aren't fully enunciating. dw!

[@havenp]

It is sumimasen! “suimasen” is just a different (kinda casual) pronunciation. Good luck on the JLPT!

[@copypasta1585]

Don't worry lol, すみません (sumimasen) is also fine; in fact, it's technically the "correct" form. Other pronunciations, like すいません (suimasen) and even すんません (sunmasen), exist as variations of すみません. They're basically easier to pronounce casually than すみません. Like how in English, we have things like "gonna" in place of "going to" in spoken word.

[@mubbly24]

Considering someone else commented saying "sumimasen" was getting them ignored in restaurants, I guess I will stick with "suimasen" on my upcoming trip to Tokyo.. 😅

[@mtlvmpr]

@@mubbly24 Just came from my trip yesterday and as far as I can tell "sumimasen" works just fine at least in Osaka and Tokyo.

[@tunaan80]

12:55 imagine missing that na (it becomes "omae wa?" means "you are?", but omae is a very rude word for "you")

[@DLG24]

Arigato💫

[@Nakitashii]

日本に数年間住んでいて、日本語も割とペラペラなんですけど、なぜか最後まで見ちゃいました　笑

[@play005517]

I watch his video for his English actually. How to convey complex meanings and see what a native Japanese think a word or phrases mean in simple English

[@darknesswithin0]

Hontou?

[@KickCaesar]

Hai B)

[@jennsuicune]

majika

[@MSTGamingTV]

Why oishii over umai?

[@janmatti]

More polite I guess

[@tytywuu]

u MA!

[@jennsuicune]

😂 umai is a bit more rude and very masculine. To be used with friends from what I've heard but not strangers. Oishii is to be used if you are a girl (though girls sometimes use it with friends, but this is to be confirmed by a real Japanese person).

[@josspzs]

excellent video as always!

[@jasenkatagihara8164]

Pro Tip: In a formal situation, "just don't speak Japanese". 👍👍👍

[@liamgell]

I've been learning Japanese for 2 years and never once seen in any video or with any of my tutors "suimasen" over "sumimasen"...

[@JohnM...]

Japanese changes all the time, I think sumimasen is ‘unfashionable’ :) - or maybe now it’s just a bit rude…

[@jl8417]

I remember when I was first starting to learn Japanese my brain and tongue used to trip over remembering how many syllables were in sumimasen (though it seems simple now) so maybe that's why Kaname is going for the smoother "suimasen"

[@liamgell]

@@jl8417 I prefer it!

[@Dr.PicklePh.D.]

Ehh, it's less of an actual difference and more of a slurred pronunciation that comes out when you're comfortable. Kinda like words like "kinda" or "gonna" in English. We use them all the time, even in formal situations, but if you asked us to write them down most people would write "kind of" or "going to" because it looks better in writing even if we slurred it in speech.

[@liamgell]

@@Dr.PicklePh.D. Thank you

[@nullhare]

Don't go to Japan if you don't know Japanese. Don't come to America if you don't know English. Very simple. It's the price of admission. Do the work, earn your stay. Don't placate the lazy idiots who want to enjoy your culture without giving the language the time and respect it deserves. (Yes, I have studied Japanese in college and continue to do so which is what brought me to this video, and I still don't plan on visiting the country until I've earned it.)

[@steluste]

please marry me kaname aaah. im coming to japan 4 u

[@joebroadinjapan]

It is "sumimasen." You should be correcting mispronunciations in your language and not encouraging other people to mispronounce words as well. Just because it is a common mistake does not make it incorrect.

[@JafoTHEgreat]

Sarcasm is rude.. Leave it at home... Trust me.